Physical Therapy for Hypertensive Elderly

Universidade Federal de Goias

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Hypertension

Treatments: Other: education meetings; Other: Physical Therapy and education meetings

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00611364

0136/03

1-Vitorino

Details and patient eligibility

About

Physical therapy for hipertensive elderly: effects in the physical activity and exercise adherence.

Introduction: The arterial hypertension (AH) is a clinical syndrome characterized by blood pressure ≥ 140/90mmHg. Practical of physical activity (PA) and/or physical exercise (PE) is one of the modalities of not farmacological treatment. Hypertensive aged not adhere to this recommendation for presenting factors that make it difficult this practical. Objective: to verify if physical therapy (PT) treatment can improve the AF and EF adhesion of hypertensive aged. Methods: The sample was composed by 43 hypertensive aged of Arterial Hypertensive League of the Federal University of Goiás. Of these, 30 had remained in the study and had been randomized in study group (SG) (16 patients) and control group (CG) (14 patients). SG was submitted of the PT treatment and participated of educative meetings, the CG only participated of the meetings. To evaluate adhesion to the AF was used the pedometer and EF was used a questionnaire of open and closed questions, six minute walk test (6'WT) and ergometric test (ET).

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age or over 60 years,
• both sexes,
• regular frequency of hypertension league;
• practice of physical exercise irregular or absent (reported by professionals objectively on the record)and signature of informed consent. -

Exclusion criteria

• participate in another research project;
• refuse to sign the informed consent.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Study group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Physical Therapy and education meetings

Control group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: education meetings